The first table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gatwick region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Gatwick region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Project Management
Rank 4 4 15
Rank change year-on-year
0 +11
Contract jobs citing Project Management 9 20 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 23.68% 16.13% 8.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 36.00% 20.83% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 6
Average daily rate £375 £384 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.28% +2.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.63% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £25.88 £33.30
% change year-on-year
+42.99% -22.29%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gatwick
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
25 96 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gatwick 65.79% 77.42% 66.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 46 38
Average daily rate £375 £338 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -15.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £258 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £400 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £24.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Project Management
West Sussex

Project Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Gatwick region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Gatwick Project Management Jobs Demand Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Project Management across the Gatwick region.

Gatwick Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Project Management across the Gatwick region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Gatwick Project Management Daily Rate Histogram

Project Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Project Management across the Gatwick region.

Gatwick Project Management Hourly Rate Trend

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick region citing Project Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Project Management.

1 7 (70.00%) PRINCE2
2 6 (60.00%) MS Project
3 5 (50.00%) MS Office
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) NetApp
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (30.00%) VMware ESX
5 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) Apache
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 2 (20.00%) EMC
6 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
6 2 (20.00%) Solaris
6 2 (20.00%) ITIL
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (20.00%) MS Excel

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gatwick region citing Project Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Project
2 5 (50.00%) MS Office
3 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) SNMP
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Officer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Support Officer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Officer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Coordinator
4 1 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (10.00%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Solaris
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (40.00%) Budget Control
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) XenApp
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
1 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) NetApp
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) EMC
5 1 (10.00%) LANDesk
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Symantec